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• TITLE: Ants Are Not Conscious

  AUTHORS: Russell K. Standish

  KEYWORDS: Anthropic Reasoning; Consciousness; Damuth’s Law; Power Law

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Philosophy, Vol.3 No.1, February 7, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Anthropic reasoning is a form of statistical reasoning based upon finding oneself a member of a particular reference class of conscious beings. By considering empirical distribution functions defined over animal life on Earth, we can deduce that the vast bulk of animal life is unlikely to be conscious.